Journal articles: 'Silicon Valley development'

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Teece, David J. "Foreign Investment and Technological Development in Silicon Valley." California Management Review 34, no. 2 (January 1992): 88–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41166695.

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Squazzoni, Flaminio. "Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Silicon Valley." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 38, no. 5 (November 13, 2008): 869–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764008326198.

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Cook, Ian, and Richard Joseph. "Rethinking Silicon Valley: New Perspectives on Regional Development." Prometheus 19, no. 4 (December 2001): 377–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109020110091431.

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Kar, Suparna Majumdar. "Locating Bengaluru as India’s Silicon Valley." Artha - Journal of Social Sciences 15, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.12724/ajss.37.3.

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Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing cities in India. This paper traces the emergence of Bengaluru as one of the leading hubs of Information and CommunicationTechnology as well as Research and Development in India. This is rooted in a complex combination of historical forces such as leadership during the colonial and post-independence periods, the influence of the city‟scolonial past, infrastructure development, as well as the impact of policy, and shifts in the same in independent India. Some of the more recent forces that have helped to shape the city have been the investment in educational and research institutions of high repute as well as in Public Sector Undertakings which resulted in the unique character of the city and its culture. These, along with a favourable policy climate, have been influential in the emergence of the city as a global leader in the field ofResearch and Development and Information Technology which has earned it its nickname of the „Silicon Valley of India‟

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Schwarz, Elke. "Silicon Valley Goes to War." Philosophy Today 65, no. 3 (2021): 549–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021519407.

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Across the world, militaries are racing to acquire and develop new capabilities based on the latest in machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, I argue that the shift into military AI is shaping human behaviour in heretofore unacknowledged and morally significant ways. Following Anders, I argue that as the human becomes digitally co-machinistic (mitmaschinell), they are compelled to adopt a logic of speed and optimisation in their ethical reasoning. The consequence of this is a form a moral de-skilling, whereby military personnel working with digital infrastructures and interfaces become less able to act and decide as moral agents. This is an especially concerning development when it comes to the conduct of war, where the moral stakes could not be higher.

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Scott, A. J., and D. P. Angel. "The US Semiconductor Industry: A Locational Analysis." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 19, no. 7 (July 1987): 875–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a190875.

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This paper is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the locational dynamics of the US semiconductor industry. The analysis proceeds in six major stages. First, we review some recent developments in industrial location theory. Second, we describe the main technological and organizational features of the semiconductor industry. Third, we provide an empirical overview of the growth and development of the industry in the USA. Fourth, we examine the internal geography of the Silicon-Valley production complex. Fifth, we carry out a linear discriminant analysis of the geography of the industry in an attempt to distinguish Silicon-Valley establishments from non-Silicon-Valley establishments. Sixth, we look at the organizational/locational relationships between wafer fabrication and device assembly.

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Harrison, B. "Concentrated Economic Power and Silicon Valley." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 26, no. 2 (February 1994): 307–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a260307.

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Silicon Valley is the computer and microelectronics capital of America. To analysts from different academic disciplines and ideological persuasions, the economy of Silicon Valley has many faces. In the most romantic characterization, the Valley's astonishing success as home base for a myriad of companies that design, produce, and export computers, workstations, microchips, disk drives, and software is mainly a story about supremely—even belligerently—independent entrepreneurs. According to a second interpretation, the Valley is a full-fledged ‘industrial district’ on the north central Italian model, made up of a dense thicket of mostly small and medium-sized (but also some quite large) ‘flexible specialists’ that alternately cooperate and compete with one another, that are embedded in a local political economy with a shared culture and norms, and that may be well connected to the rest of the world but whose interfirm production relationships are thought to be highly localized. There is also a third perspective. Silicon Valley was created by, and remains profoundly dependent on, major multinational corporations and on the fiscal and regulatory support of the national government—especially in the ‘person’ of the US Department of Defense. The Valley is fundamentally a world headquarters of, or at least an important node within, global networks of big firms and their small firm subcontractors and suppliers, and, as such, is subject to the same contradictory tendencies toward concentration of power but decentralization of production that are coming to characterize the entire global market-based economic system. The three aspects of Silicon Valley's political economy—rampant entrepreneurship, an unusually high degree of interfirm circulation of engineering labor and other signs that have become associated with district-like behavior, and the visible hand of major corporations and their government—university partners in shaping the region into a base from which to manage operations that are executed beyond the Valley's domain—are in fact not mutually inconsistent. In this paper, however, I argue that the third constitutes the dominant tendency driving the reproduction of this vibrant regional economy, and has done since the years after World War 2.

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Castells, Manuel. "The Real Crisis of Silicon Valley: A Retrospective Perspective." Competition & Change 3, no. 1-2 (March 1998): 107–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102452949800300105.

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Ten years ago, Silicon Valley was the leading pole in the world of high technology development and was headed for a potential regional crisis. Two major issues were at stake: first, “the applications gap,” the need to diffuse technological applications throughout society, beyond the limits of corporate uses and military equipment, to match the extraordinary development of technological innovation; and second, the lack of social conditions for Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs to constitute themselves into a visionary class able to restructure society around its interests, coinciding with the interests of development of such a technological innovation. The industry had to become demand-driven, rather that supply-induced. Today, the Valley has rebounded and repositioned itself, without fulfilling the conditions of this “social” model. Uses of information technology exploded in all realms, along the lines of networking activities. But how to explain this phenomenon? The answer lies in the research and theorization that Richard Gordon conducted during the last decade of his life. Silicon Valley was, and is, a milieu of innovation. It was, and is, also a network of firms and entrepreneurs. But it is something else — in Richard Gordon's words, the collaborative partnerships that linked up the regional production system and the extra-regional environment in a context of global exchanges. Gordon's theory of Silicon Valley is the missing link without which various interpretations of this most important case of regional development are only partial.

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Lüthje, Boy. "Silicon Valley: Vernetzte Produktion, Industriearbeit und soziale Bewegungen im Detroit der „New Economy“." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 31, no. 122 (March 1, 2001): 79–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v31i122.753.

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The article explores the new patterns of manufacturing organization and manufacturing work underlying the much-heralded information technology industry of California´s Silicon Valley. From a theoretical approach based on French regulation theory, critical U.S. industrial geography, and German industrial sociology the paper argues that the Silicon Valley of the 1990s has become a place of prime importance for the development of new manufacturing arrangements in the information technology industry. The article discusses the implications for Silicon Valley´s manufacturing workforce, which is mainly made up of women and non-white immigrants, and the challenges for the labor movement.

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Olivieri, Adam, Don Eisenberg, Martin Kurtovich, and Lori Pettegrew. "Ground‐Water Contamination in Silicon Valley." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 111, no. 3 (July 1985): 346–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(1985)111:3(346).

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Saxenian, A. "Contrasting Patterns of Business Organization in Silicon Valley." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10, no. 4 (August 1992): 377–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d100377.

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The industrialists of Silicon Valley have pioneered two divergent political strategies in recent decades: one is an attempt to improve the competitive position of local firms by lobbying for supportive trade and technology policies, the other is an attempt to enhance the flexibility of the specialist producers in the region by providing collective services that promote the innovative recombination of resources. These contrasting patterns of organization reflect the hybrid structure of the local economy, and political conflicts in the region highlight divergent understandings of the proper forms of governance for a flexible regional economy. This case underscores the openness of regional and industrial trajectories, and suggests the importance of analyzing the political, as well as the purely economic, determinants of industrial strategies and regional outcomes.

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Sahlman, William A. "Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age." Business History Review 92, no. 2 (2018): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680518000429.

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Leslie Berlin's book Troublemakers is an engaging and insightful people-first exploration of the roots of Silicon Valley, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Berlin portrays seven individuals who played important roles at critical junctures in the development of technologies we now take for granted: the Internet; personal, connected computing and communications devices; genetic engineering; software as a service (SAAS); streaming video; massively multiplayer online games; and democratized access to the world's information. They helped lay the foundation for the economic powerhouse called Silicon Valley.

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Riain, Seán Ó. "An Offshore Silicon Valley? The Emerging Irish Software Industry." Competition & Change 2, no. 2 (June 1997): 175–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102452949700200202.

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This paper assesses the development potential of local inter-firm networks in Newly Industrializing Countries. This is done through an analysis of the role of such networks in the growth of the software industry in the Republic of Ireland. Transnational software companies located in Ireland developed extensive local supply networks. Local social networks and a local culture of innovation contributed to the growth of an indigenous software development sector. While local networks can generate significant competitive advantage for a region they are inevitably internationalized as successful firms organize globally or as the region attracts further foreign investment. Corporations utilize local networks to solve problems of cost, control and innovation management in the globalization of production and corporate organization. While fostering local networks can be an effective public policy, it is not sufficient for development. The role of the state in supporting, guiding and bargaining with local firms in these networks remains a crucial aspect of development strategy.

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KOH, FRANCIS C. C., and WINSTON T. H. KOH. "MARKETS AND INDUSTRY — VENTURE CAPITAL AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN INDUSTRY OVERVIEW AND SINGAPORE'S EXPERIENCE." Singapore Economic Review 47, no. 02 (October 2002): 243–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590802000535.

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This paper provides an overview of the venture capital industry and its development in Asia and Singapore. Venture capital plays an important role in innovation and economic growth. Indeed, the resurgence of the United States as a technology leader is intimately linked to the success of Silicon Valley. As Singapore enters the next phase of economic development, the creation of internal engines of growth is an urgent task. The Singapore government has done much to provide an environment for entrepreneurship to thrive. Its success at replicating the Silicon Valley culture will be important for Singapore's future economic success.

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Leslie, Stuart W., and Robert H. Kargon. "Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman's Model for Regional Advantage." Business History Review 70, no. 4 (1996): 435–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3117312.

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This paper explores the origins of the Silicon Valley model for regional economic development, and attempts to deploy this model elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Frederick Terman, Stanford's provost, first envisioned its unique partnership of academia and industry, and trained the first generation of students who effected it. He patiently cultivated an aggressively entrepreneurial culture in what he called “the newly emerging community of technical scholars.” Beginning in the 1960s, business groups elsewhere set out to build their own versions of Silicon Valley, some enlisting the assistance of Terman and his proteges. After discussing the emergence of the Stanford-Silicon Valley effort, the paper examines in detail the New Jersey Institute of Science and Technology, an effort led by Bell Laboratories; the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and the SMU Foundaton for Science and Engineering in Dallas, Texas; and the Korea Advanced Insitute of Science and Technology, Terman's last and arguably most successful attempt. The paper discusses the reasons for the difficulties in creating new versions, and suggests explanations for the apparent success of the Korean experiment.

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Jungman, Hannu, and Marko Seppä. "V2C activity on a local level: qualitative cases – Tampere and Silicon Valley." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2004): 265–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13522750410557076.

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The increased capital intensity of venture capital supply and the increased knowledge intensity of new venture supply have created a knowledge gap and recreated a capital gap between new venture activity and venture capital industry. This development has given rise to an all‐new breed of players. In this descriptive, qualitative study, V2C activity is explored in a local context through comparison of cases Tampere (Finland) and Silicon Valley (USA). In Silicon Valley, the dominant group of V2C players is business angels, whereas in Tampere, publicly funded incubators play the most visible role in new venture development. Nevertheless, in both areas, five different categories of V2C players are represented, and, in both, bridge the gaps to a significant extent.

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Heinrich, Thomas. "Cold War Armory: Military Contracting in Silicon Valley." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 2 (June 2002): 247–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700011666.

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Silicon Valley is frequently portrayed as a manifestation of postindustrial entrepreneurship, where ingenious inventor-businessmen and venture capitalists forged a dynamic, high-tech economy unencumbered by government's “heavy hand.” Closer examination reveals that government played a major role in launching and sustaining some of the region's core industries through military contracting. Focusing on leading firms in the microwave electronics, missile, satellite, and semiconductor industries, this article argues that demand for customized military technology encouraged contractors to embark on a course of flexible specialization, batch production, and continuous innovation. Thriving throughout much of the Cold War, major military contractors fell on hard times when defense markets started to shrink in the late 1980s, because specialized design and production capabilities were rarely applicable to civilian product lines. But Pentagon funding for research and development helped lay the technological groundwork for a new generation of startups, contributing to Silicon Valley's economic renaissance in the 1990s.

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Chen, Xing. "Optics Valley of China and Its Social Security Issue." Compensation & Benefits Review 44, no. 3 (May 2012): 170–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886368712455604.

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Rapid development by innovative enterprises is the goal of Optics Valley of China. Currently 1,951 hi-tech companies have started operations in the valley. The anchor industries include optoelectronic information, bioengineering and medicine, environmental protection and energy saving, high-end equipment manufacturing and hi-tech services. Since 2000, the average annual economic growth rate of Optics Valley has been nearly 30%. Optics Valley continues to upgrade the development of an open economy and to attract international well-known companies with the advantage of location, policy, industry and environment. A strategic agreement between Optics Valley of China and Silicon Valley of the United States was signed in February 2012. Economic development and people’s livelihood are always the priorities in China. Toward that end, Optics Valley has adopted a framework of requirements specifying the social security responsibility of the foreign-funded enterprises in the valley as a step to accelerate the formation of a social security system. This article analyses the status of industry development, the region’s investment environment and the regulations governing social security in Optics Valley. The intent is to help foreign entrepreneurs interested in establishing an operation in Optics Valley.

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Adams, Stephen B. "Regionalism in Stanford's Contribution to the Rise of Silicon Valley." Enterprise & Society 4, no. 3 (September 1, 2003): 521–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700012702.

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In this article I explore the powerful sense of regional solidarity that accompanied the rise of Silicon Valley. From the early years of Stanford University, the university's leaders saw its mission as service to the West and shaped the school accordingly. At the same time, the perceived exploitation of the West at the hands of eastern interests fueled booster-like attempts to build self-sufficient indigenous local industry. Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford's interests with those of the area's high-tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley's development. The distinctive regional ethos of the West during the first half of the twentieth century is an ingredient of Silicon Valley's already prepared environment, an ingredient that would-be replicators ignore at their peril.

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Green, David. "The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment & Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley." International Journal of Environmental Studies 67, no. 3 (June 2010): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207230802168041.

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Zukin, Sharon. "Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex." Urban Studies 58, no. 1 (September 3, 2020): 3–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098020951421.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing. But it is not at all clear what these arrangements will mean for cities that have spent the past decade building an ‘innovation complex’ around physical density, digital technology and real estate development. On the one hand, many parts of the tech ecosystem that relied on face-to-face interaction – such as coworking spaces, hackathons and venture capitalists’ mentoring of start-up founders – have already moved online. On the other hand, cutting tech ecosystems loose from place-based offices, labour markets and institutional networks puts cities’ economic future at risk. This could drastically weaken the value of the city’s fixed capital of buildings and land, its social capital of institutional networks and communities, and its human capital of workers with tech skills. Yet partnering with tech leaders to ‘reimagine’ the city could advance the power of Big Tech. To try to understand which parts of the urban tech ecosystem will likely survive the pandemic, I take a critical look at how the discursive, organisational and geographical spaces of a planetary Silicon Valley culture became embedded in New York between 2010 and 2020.

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Kelly, Norene, and Stephen B. Gilbert. "The Wearer, the Device, and Its Use: Advances in Understanding the Social Acceptability of Wearables." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 62, no. 1 (September 2018): 1027–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621237.

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The WEAR Scale was used to collect data on the social acceptability of three wearable devices from 1,387 participants from the US Midwest and Silicon Valley. The most notable result was that a head-worn “medical device” was rated as more socially acceptable ( d=0.78) than the same device described as a “brain fitness tool,” which was the opposite of what was hypothesized. Also, as hypothesized, Silicon Valley participants found the wearables more socially acceptable than Midwestern U.S. participants. The Scale and these results enable industry to better predict the human factors affecting social acceptability of wearables throughout development and before market release.

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Parthasarathy, Balaji. "India's Silicon Valley or Silicon Valley's India? Socially Embedding the Computer Software Industry in Bangalore." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28, no. 3 (September 2004): 664–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00542.x.

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Fung, K. C., and Nathalie Aminian. "Silicon Valley, France and China: a comparative study of innovation systems and policies." Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 10, no. 3 (October 2, 2017): 194–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcefts-05-2016-0015.

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Purpose In this paper, the authors aim to examine some characteristics of the innovation system and policy in France and China. For comparison, they also highlight some high technology features of Silicon Valley and California. Design/methodology/approach The authors study the characteristics of innovation in France and in China. The authors examine the technology systems and policies in both countries and compare their features with those in Silicon Valley. Findings As far as France is concerned, it can be stated that the innovation system and policy are under transformation, going from a strong state involvement to a more decentralized framework. This evolution leads to a multi-level governance of the innovation system and to the emergence of new actors. For China, the most interesting development in China is the evolution of its internet-related sector. The authors argue here that the internet-driven economy is a radical, systemic technological change and it is rapidly growing in China. Originality/value One of the earliest papers comparing the innovation policies and activities in France, China and Silicon Valley.

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Choi, David Y., Chun Lee, and Kimberly C. Gleason. "The Development Processes and Performances of Asian American-Founded Ventures in Silicon Valley." Journal of Private Equity 8, no. 3 (May 31, 2005): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3905/jpe.2005.516857.

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Coe, Neil. "Book Review: Work in the new economy: flexible labor markets in Silicon Valley." Progress in Human Geography 28, no. 5 (October 2004): 675–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0309132504ph513xx.

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Hero, Peter deCourcy. "The Silicon Valley Arts Fund: Financial Stabilization of Cultural Organizations by Joint Venture Development." Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 23, no. 3 (October 1993): 196–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10632921.1993.9942931.

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Saxenian, Annalee. "The Silicon Valley Connection: Transnational Networks and Regional Development in Taiwan, China and India." Science, Technology and Society 7, no. 1 (March 2002): 117–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097172180200700106.

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Huth, Susanne. "Analog Algorithm – Landscapes of Machine Learning." sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 9, no. 1/2 (April 23, 2021): 213–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v9i1/2.696.

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In ihrem fotografischen Magazinbeitrag „Analog Algorithm – Landscapes of Machine Learning“, der auf ihrem gleichnamigen Buch basiert, nimmt uns die Fotografin Susanne Huth mit ins Silicon Valley, das Machtzentrum der technischen Innovation und der postindustriellen, neoliberalen Wirtschaftsordnung schlechthin. Mit ihren Arbeiten begibt sie sich auf einen Streifzug durch den etwa 70 Kilometer langen und 30 Kilometer breiten Landstrich in der San Francisco Bay Area, der Gegenstand globaler und kollektiver Fantasien zu sein scheint. Huths Bilder zeigen jedoch, dass es nicht ausreicht, lediglich über diesen Ort zu reden, zu behaupten, er habe mit seinen Technologien die Alltagsroutinen, Daten und digitale Identität einer jeden von uns erfasst und durchdrungen – ohne dass wir jemals da gewesen wären (Lübbke-Tidow 2020). Susanne Huths Schwarz-Weiß-Arbeiten brechen mit diesem Narrativ, indem sie das Silicon Valley als sozio-politischen Prozess beforschen, ihn als kulturelles Dispositiv begreifen und die strukturelle Transformation der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft zur Informationsgesellschaft nachzeichnen. Die dokumentierten Lagerhallen, Straßenzüge, Parkplätze, Gebäudekomplexe und Werbeplakate wirken nicht so schillernd oder innovativ wie die Marketingkampagnen der dort ansässigen Unternehmen, sondern brüchig und unspektakulär, fast schon alltäglich.

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Schwarz, Elke. "Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy." Thesis Eleven 153, no. 1 (July 18, 2019): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619863854.

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Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate ‘game changer’ for economy and society; a technology of which we cannot be the master, but which nonetheless will have a pervasive influence on human life. The fast pace with which the multi-billion dollar AI industry advances toward the creation of human-level intelligence is accompanied by an increasingly exaggerated chorus of the ‘incredible miracle’, or the ‘incredible horror’, intelligent machines will constitute for humanity, as the human is gradually replaced by a technologically superior proxy, destined to be configured as a functional (data) component at best, a relic at worst. More than half a century ago, Günther Anders sketched out this path toward technological obsolescence, and his work on ‘Promethean shame’ and ‘Promethean discrepancy’ provides an invaluable means with which to recognise and understand the relationship of the modern human to his/her technological products. In this article, I draw on Anders’s writings to unpack and unsettle contemporary narratives of our relation to AI, with a view toward refocusing attention on the responsibilities we bear in producing such immersive technologies. With Anders, I suggest that we must exercise and develop moral imagination so that the human capacity for moral responsibility does not atrophy in our technologically mediated future.

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Angel, D. P. "High-Technology Agglomeration and the Labor Market: The Case of Silicon Valley." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 23, no. 10 (October 1991): 1501–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a231501.

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Searle, Glen, and Bill Pritchard. "Industry Clusters and Sydney's ITT Sector: northern Sydney as ‘Australia's Silicon Valley’?" Australian Geographer 36, no. 2 (July 2005): 145–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049180500153443.

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Etzkowitz, Henry. "Silicon Valley at risk? Sustainability of a global innovation icon: An introduction to the Special Issue." Social Science Information 52, no. 4 (December 2013): 515–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018413501946.

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The increasing dependence of Silicon Valley on external sources of human capital and technological innovation is a potential Achilles’ heel if competitive regions achieve ‘stickiness’ and retain these assets. Silicon Valley developed in a successive triple helix format, each helix building upon and reinforcing the other. A single helix university development model morphed into a dual helix university–industry symbiotic relationship that became a triple helix university–industry–government format through the provision of government funding, sporadically in the pre-war and consistently in the post-war eras, expanding the innovation dynamic and fostering growth firms. In the early 2000s, a patient advocate-driven social movement provided an alternative engine for stem-cell development in the face of federal government opposition, creating a new model for S&T financing and innovation. Bond issues that treat science as infrastructure, if diffused and replicated, have the potential to revivify the original pro bono venture model. A counter-cyclical innovation dynamic, originated during the great depression of the 1930s, may yet fulfill the promise of the triple helix model as a driver of economic and social development by providing an antidote for its successor economic crisis.

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JIANG, WILLIAM Y., XIAOHONG QUAN, and SHU ZHOU. "HISTORICAL, ENTREPRENEURIAL AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 07, no. 01 (March 2010): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219877010001805.

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This paper studies the semiconductor industry from three perspectives: historical, entrepreneurial and supply chain management. After a brief introduction, the paper begins by tracing the history and evolution of the semiconductor industry including the two seminal enterprises: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory and Fairchild Semiconductor. Starting from the invention of the transfer resistor (transistor) by three Nobel laureates (John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Shockley) and the founding of the "most successful failure" in Silicon Valley, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory and the Fairchild Eight, the paper discusses some earliest entrepreneurial attempts in the industry and how these attempts influenced over seventy semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley, including Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices. The paper then examines the industry's developing business models, from the vertically integrated model to the integrated device manufacturing model to the development of the foundry model. Finally, the paper looks at the industry's growing trend of globalization together with its outsourcing/off-shoring and supply chain management developments. The authors believe that such a multi-disciplinary approach to study an industry provides valuable insights into the evolution and development of an entire industry and the approach can be generalized to study other industries to enhance understanding at the industry level.

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Heitzman, James. "Geographic information systems in India's ‘silicon valley’: the impact of technology on planning Bangalore." Contemporary South Asia 12, no. 1 (March 2003): 57–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0958493032000123371.

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Carver, Terrell. "Materializing the Metaphors of Global Cities: Singapore and Silicon Valley." Globalizations 7, no. 3 (September 2010): 383–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731003669768.

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Diekmann, Lucy O., Leslie C. Gray, and Gregory A. Baker. "Drought, water access, and urban agriculture: a case study from Silicon Valley." Local Environment 22, no. 11 (July 20, 2017): 1394–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2017.1351426.

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Todo, Yasuyuki, Weiying Zhang, and Lei-An Zhou. "Intra-industry Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in Research and Development: Evidence from China's “Silicon Valley”." Review of Development Economics 15, no. 3 (July 20, 2011): 569–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2011.00628.x.

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ADAMS, STEPHEN B. "SILICON VALLEY AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY: MODIFYING THE FORMULA FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-TECH REGION." Academy of Management Proceedings 2004, no. 1 (August 2004): A1—A6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2004.13862694.

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Davidson, Elsa. "Marketing the Self: The Politics of Aspiration among Middle-Class Silicon Valley Youth." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 40, no. 12 (January 2008): 2814–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a4037.

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Gordon, Richard, and Linda Kimball. "Globalization, Innovation, and Regional Development." Competition & Change 3, no. 1-2 (March 1998): 9–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102452949800300102.

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Contemporary theoretical and empirical analysis of globalization and regionalization have remained relatively separate from each other: globalization is assumed precisely to transcend nation-state and region while industrial districts are presumed to be relatively self-contained. In contrast to these views, this paper examines the changing dynamics and new reciprocal interdependence of regional and innovation networks in Silicon Valley: integration with global networks has become essential to the long-term viability of regional innovation processes within the infamous region. The paper also summarizes how structural transformations have led to a new understanding of internationalization, transnationalization, and globalization in the world economy, and describes the problems with prevailing state-led counter movements to these processes. It then introduces a new model of problem-solving growth in a context of globalization, and suggests the need for the facilitative state whose role will be a new form of interstitial participation.

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Etzkowitz, Henry, and James Dzisah. "Unity and Diversity in High-tech Growth and Renewal: Learning from Boston and Silicon Valley." European Planning Studies 16, no. 8 (September 2008): 1009–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654310802315385.

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Hall, Peter. "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970, by Christophe Lécuyer." Journal of Regional Science 47, no. 2 (April 18, 2007): 370–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00513_3.x.

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Heppler, Jason A. "Green Dreams, Toxic Legacies: Toward a Digital Political Ecology of Silicon Valley." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 11, no. 1 (March 2017): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2017.0179.

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This article examines the ways that geohumanities approaches historical research aids in the study of environmental and urban history in one of the twentieth century's fastest growing American urban centers. It explores how San Jose typified the challenges of Silicon Valley's rapid urbanization and desire to chart a new form of industrialisation predicated on the ‘greenness’ of high-tech manufacturing and development. These issues are examined through a variety of mapping and GIS projects that seek to understand areas of cities threatened by natural hazards, to unveil the growth of cities over time, and how polluted areas introduced environmental hazards to social inequality. The article concludes that studies of urban areas cannot be separated from questions about the environment and its role in social justice, urban planning, and politics.

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Gabbe, C. J., Michael Manville, and Taner Osman. "opportunity cost of parking requirements: Would Silicon Valley be richer if its parking requirements were lower?" Journal of Transport and Land Use 14, no. 1 (February 22, 2021): 277–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1758.

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We estimate the off-street parking supply of the seven most economically productive cities in Santa Clara County, California, better known as Silicon Valley. Using assessor data, municipal zoning data, and visual inspection of aerial imagery, we estimate that about 13 percent of the land area in these cities is devoted to parking, and that more than half of the average commercial parcel is parking space. This latter fact suggests that minimum parking requirements, if binding, depress Silicon Valley’s commercial and industrial densities, and thus its economic output. In an exploratory empirical exercise, we simulate a reduction in parking requirements from the year 2000 forward and show that under conservative assumptions the region could have added space for nearly 13,000 jobs, equivalent to a 37 percent increase over the actual job growth that occurred during that time. These additional jobs would be disproportionately located in the region’s highest-wage zip codes and could add more than $1 billion in payroll annually, further implying a large productivity gain.

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van Dijck, Pitou. "The Enclave Economy, Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley - by Gallagher, Kevin and Zarsky, Lyuba." Bulletin of Latin American Research 28, no. 3 (July 2009): 435–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00310_6.x.

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Sokol, Martin. "Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neoliberalism, Post-Socialism and the Knowledge Economy." Europe-Asia Studies 65, no. 7 (September 2013): 1324–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.822714.

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Healey, Kevin. "Disrupting Wisdom 2.0: The Quest for “Mindfulness” in Silicon Valley and Beyond." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 4, no. 1 (May 14, 2015): 67–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000101.

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In early 2014 activist Amanda Ream and members of Eviction Free San Francisco disrupted the fifth annual Wisdom 2.0 conference, at which Silicon Valley leaders discuss the benefits of ‘mindfulness’ practices. It was another confrontation between working-class residents of San Francisco and the technology employees who have gentrified their neighborhoods. A member of the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, Ream’s actions garnered support from other ‘socially engaged’ Buddhists from Berkeley and elsewhere. Secular critics have likewise questioned the appropriation of Buddhist practices by corporations whose business practices and products arguably undermine the cultivation of mindfulness. This article intervenes in these debates by outlining an approach called Contemplative Media Studies, which integrates critical media studies with the emerging field of Contemplative Studies. I argue that market imperatives have favored a corporate-friendly understanding of mindfulness that perpetuates structural injustice, and conclude that an expanded notion of civic mindfulness must include the revitalization of journalism and the development of non-commercial media systems.

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Zhou, Yu. "The Making of an Innovative Region from a Centrally Planned Economy: Institutional Evolution in Zhongguancun Science Park in Beijing." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 6 (June 2005): 1113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3716.

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Literature on innovation regions has focused mostly on case studies in mature capitalist economies in North America and Europe, generating little knowledge of how innovation may take place in alternative institutional settings or how institutional transformation occurs in regions other than advanced capitalist economies. This paper traces the institutional evolution of Zhongguancun (ZGC), China's most prominent science and technology park, in the northwestern part of Beijing, in its pursuit of becoming China's own ‘Silicon Valley’. Created during the planned economy, ZGC has traveled a radically different trajectory compared with most high-tech regions in advanced countries. Since the mid-1980s, the area has been able to transform itself from a quiet Beijing suburb designated for scientific research and higher education into a bustling hub of global high-tech business. In this paper I examine the changing patterns of behavior and interaction among the Chinese state, Chinese technology firms, and multinational technology corporations during three different stages of ZGC's development, illustrating the possibility of alternative institutional arrangements and the intricacy of institutional transformation. The paper then compares the formal and informal institutional characteristics of ZGC with those of California's Silicon Valley, signifying its strengths and weaknesses for fostering an innovative environment.

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Cao, Cong. "Zhongguancun and China's High-Tech Parks in Transition: ““Growing Pains”” or ““Premature Senility””?" Asian Survey 44, no. 5 (September 2004): 647–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2004.44.5.647.

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This essay examines the development of China's high-tech parks and, in particular, the challenges they have encountered. It concludes that lack of institutional support for innovation and the indigenous technological capabilities necessary to be competitive, unclear ownership, lack of venture capital, and the overwhelming role of government have impeded the efforts of China's high-tech parks to duplicate the success of role models such as Silicon Valley.

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